Ghosted Trailer Featuring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas
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Ghosted Trailer Featuring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas

Apple Original Films today unveiled the trailer and poster for the romantic action-adventure film, Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. Ghosted will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on April 21, 2023. Chris Evans and Ana de Armas previously starred together in Knives Out, which opened in theaters in 2019. The film grossed $312.9…

Blonde Review: Ana de Armas Is Marilyn Monroe
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Blonde Review: Ana de Armas Is Marilyn Monroe

Simultaneously explorative and deeply reductive, Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Blonde delves as deeply into Marilyn Monroe’s (Ana de Armas) battle between her public and private personae as anyone ever has, but the film only manages to find tired Freudian pop answers beneath the sediment. Joyce Carol Oates’ semi-biographical novel (Order Now) provides a moderate starting point, turning…

The Gray Man Movie Review
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The Gray Man Movie Review

Overloaded, overwrought, and overwhelming, The Gray Man movie is the kind of set-piece-oriented, cliché action spectacle that used to be Hollywood’s bread and butter but has become so rare it’s almost alien when placed before us. Wallowing in light characters and an unbelievable plot as much its star charisma and some wildly over-the-top action sequences,…

No Time to Die Review
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No Time to Die Review

The conventional wisdom in film (even, or even especially, action/adventure entertainment) is that formula is bad, an exemplar of laziness with a focus more on product than art. The other side is that the formula easily draws audiences in, and breaking it without warning is also bad because it will drive your audience away. No…

Knives Out Review - Fantastic Fest 2019

Knives Out Review – Fantastic Fest 2019

Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is an engine of perfect entertainment. From the opening moments, we are swept into the story and characters, and it feels completely confident and effortless. It’s old-fashioned in all the best ways but it also has modern sensibilities and themes that give the film weight and substance. The murder mystery, as a…